Mrs. Wu took her son Zhang Jie back to her courtyard.
Zhang Jie is still not angry.
"Mother, are you going to let that boy be the heir apparent? Isn't the young master a son? Why does the father treat his son like that? The son doesn't even want to go to the Imperial Academy. The way they look at him makes him uncomfortable!"
Mrs. Wu's heart was also blocked. She didn't like anything she saw.
He pulled Zhang Jie to sit next to him and said, "My son, your mother is here and your sister is here, so don't worry. The days are still long."
Zhang Jie leaned into Wu's arms and said, "Mother, you must help your son. Your son is the eldest son of the eldest family."
Wu comforted him and herself, "Yes, my son is the eldest son of the eldest family. No one can take him away from me!"
Grandma Ma and Grandma An were on the other side, and they quickly finished selecting all the people.
The daughter-in-law of the Duke of Guo is assigned to a nanny for education, two first-class maids, two second-class maids, four third-class maids, a rough assistant maid, a rough assistant mother-in-law, and two doorkeepers each.
The same goes for legitimate sons.
But on Huo Nian's side, except Shi Hua and Hu Huo, the rest were accompanied by servants and servants.
Huo Xi didn't want to save money for the Duke's Mansion, so all the staff were fully staffed. There were small kitchens in both courtyards, and two more maids were hired to cook.
Get all the deeds of these people.
There was a large number of people, and the yard was quickly tidied up.
Several girls went to the warehouse to get the missing furniture and needed ornaments. Huo Xi didn't ask them to be polite. He took what was needed and picked everything up.
He also sent people to the accounting room to collect the monthly silver and quota for the two courtyards this month, as well as the clothing materials, jewelry, etc. of the master and servants, but not a single thing was left behind.
When someone reported it to the madam, the madam rubbed her forehead with a headache.
Waving his hands: "If she wants to take it, give it to her."
I heard that the two jade carvings of figures and landscapes and the four red sandalwood screens in the warehouse had also been taken away, and the Dowager Madam only waved her hand.
Soon the two empty courtyards were given a new look and regained their vitality.
"Girl, would you like to choose one or two of the servant girls' families to be sent to our yard to serve them?"
Ma Ma felt that the kitchen was the easiest place for people to manipulate, but it was most reassuring to have their family in their hands, as physical deeds were not enough.
Huo Xi nodded: "Send a message to my mother and ask her to go to the Renya Department to select some cooks and bring the two cooks at home into the house. Then, pick one from each of the four servant girls' homes and put it in our business.
Li and Nian'er's village. Let uncle arrange them."
"Yes. Miss, you handled it well." Mother Ma responded and went down to make arrangements.
After a while, Huo Nian followed Zhang Xuan around the house and returned to Huo Xi's yard. After sitting down, he drank two large cups of tea.
She said to Huo Xi: "Sister, this mansion is so big, my feet hurt when I walk. There are still many places I haven't visited yet."
Huo Xi smiled: "Qijin's courtyard occupies almost a whole street, how big can it be?"
"I have to walk a few more times to avoid getting lost."
Huo Nian sighed and began to miss his own yard and Qionghua Lane. Everything here was unfamiliar to him.
He looked disappointed, "There are so many brothers and sisters in this family, and I don't remember many of them. I don't know which house they belong to."
"It's okay, my sister doesn't remember it either. I'll remember it after a few more exposures."
"There are too many people here."
How come there are so many brothers and sisters? Can Mrs. Tai remember all the grandchildren?
Huo Xi chuckled and said, "That's a lot. There are only three houses in this mansion. You see, some families have more houses, and there are even more for concubines. I probably can't even recognize all the houses."
"Look at Emperor Taizu, he gave birth to twenty-six sons, and twenty-four survived. It doesn't look like many, but there are one hundred and twenty-eight grandsons! If the palace organizes a family banquet, what do you think?
Can Emperor Taizu know these grandsons?"
Huo Nian opened his mouth wide, "One hundred and twenty-eight?"
Huo Xi smiled and nodded: "One hundred and twenty-eight are male grandchildren, plus granddaughters, how many are there? Organize a family banquet, let alone the grandchildren, it is the sons, plus the princess, the consort, the daughter-in-law, too
Even ancestors may not recognize who is who."
Huo Nian was stunned for a while and then laughed too.
It's okay, okay. The British government only has three rooms for people, which is not too many people. If there were more people, he would be in chaos.
"Madam, none of the people we arranged were selected by the eldest lady."
The servants went to report to Wu.
Wu gritted her teeth and said, "You didn't pick any of them?" So cautious?
"We picked a lot of people, but they were all serving in the outer courtyard. None of the people we arranged were selected."
"What about the two kitchens? She doesn't want any of the cooks?"
Since you have chosen a courtyard with a small kitchen, of course you have to make the fire yourself. You can't even ask for a cook. Could it be that the cooks have been brought in from outside the house?
"I don't even want a few cooks. I only want four servants. I'm afraid the cooks will really have to send them in from outside."
"Little bitch!"
This time, so many people were brought into the mansion from outside, and the Duke didn't say anything.
For the servants of the Mudlegs family, how can they follow the same rules as the servants of the Duke's house? They are not afraid of making mistakes and making outsiders laugh.
"The Madam confiscated their deeds?"
"No. The eldest lady said that she should naturally hold the deed of her life. If the Duke's Palace cannot afford the servant's money, then she can pay for it herself."
"You little bitch! I don't know how much money I have, and there are dozens of servants. I need a lot of monthly silver and monthly salary every month. If I wait for 2 taels a month, I have to educate the nun for 5 taels, and I need a lot of monthly silver every month.
There need to be a lot of examples." I'm not afraid of dying poor.
The servants who came to report were also thinking about the eldest lady's worth.
I heard that the eldest daughter’s adoptive parents were in business. I’m afraid they brought a lot of money into the house.
"My wife didn't say anything, so what do we have to say? The days are still long. There are branches and branches in this mansion, marriages in the world, this one is supported by that, the water is deep, how can a mud-legged person raised outside know it?"
"Yes, Madam is absolutely right. We are not in a hurry. It is only the first day since we entered the house. Our third young master is not as good as the young master who lives outside."
The two little bitches thought they were on a branch, but they didn't know that the branch might be a dead branch and their habitat was unstable.
It’s just that Wu underestimated the capabilities of Grandma Ma and Grandma An.
After selecting many servants in the mansion, the two nuns immediately started to register them.
Inquire clearly about your net worth, your family members, your children, your relationships with everyone in the government, where you have worked as a clerk, what skills you have, and whether you have made any mistakes, and register them one by one.
Afraid of revealing anything, I asked A to say B and C, B to say C and D, D to say A and B... and so on.
They were also asked to sit together. If one person makes a mistake, they all will not do it, and the whole family will not do it.
It frightened all the servants.
I no longer dare to take advantage of my status as an old man in the mansion to look down upon the two new masters who have entered the mansion.
Even the servants brought by the eldest lady and the fifth young master did not dare to look down upon them.
The two nuns beat and warned them sternly, and one of them rewarded them with a month's worth of money, a stick and sweet dates. The servants who were picked into the two courtyards immediately recognized the eldest lady and the fifth young master as their masters.